Fables | Swanfall Art Annual Exhibition 2025
- | West, East and North Galleries
Open Call in progress
Open daily from Tuesday 26 August - Sunday 31 August, 10am to 5pm
Free Admission, no booking required
SWANFALL ART returns to Mall Galleries in August 2025 with its annual exhibition. Titled ‘Fables’, the show explores how narrative functions as a method in contemporary art, reflecting a broader shift from expression to resonance.
Art’s power lies not merely in representation, but in transformation - in awakening perception, forging connection, and revealing essence. It renders the abstract perceptible and gives structure to the ineffable.
As global uncertainty persists, so too does a quiet exhaustion with formalism and aesthetic detachment - a shift increasingly felt across artistic discourse. The experience of art is moving away from self-expression and toward emotional and intellectual resonance. Viewers and collectors are turning their attention to conceptual depth and affective power over technical virtuosity or stylistic novelty. This turn reflects a deeper, often unconscious, collective longing for memory, identity, and shared experience.
Story remains a vital way we organise time, understand change, and locate ourselves in the world. Narrative is being redefined - not simply as storytelling, but as a structural and perceptual framework. Contemporary works often avoid singular viewpoints or linear conclusions, instead inviting open-ended interpretation.
Art is a convergence of thought, experience and imagination - forged into form, interpreted, and reimagined. It is the joy of perception, the imprint of existence; it carries beauty and meaning while bridging reason and emotion.
This year's annual exhibition is a response to this shift - from explanation to insight, from statement to shared experience. The theme is not a return to moralistic fables, but an invitation for artists to explore emotional depth and narrative complexity across mediums. We welcome work across all media - painting, installation, moving image, text, sound, performance. We are drawn to works that generate rhythm, provoke thought, and activate the space between feeling and idea - pieces that may resist explanation, yet resonate deeply in the silent structure between image and idea, gesture and memory.
EVENTS PROGRAMME
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
26 - 31.08.2025, 10am to 5pm
OPENING NIGHT
26.08.2025, 6pm to 9pm
MARK LAWSON BELL
TALES FROM BROKEN PLATES
BOOK SIGNING EVENT
28.08.2025, 2pm to 4pm
CURATORS' TALK
31.08.2025, 2pm to 4pm
AWARD CEREMONY
31.08.2025, 4pm to 5pm